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Michael Pisaro: A Mist Is A Collection Of Points

Phillip Bush; Greg Stuart; Michael Pisaro

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Format: CD

Cat No: NW80772

Release Date:  13 April 2018

Label:  New World

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093228077220

Genres:  Classical  Contemporary Classical  

  • Description

    Michael Pisaro (b. 1961) is a member of the Wandelweiser collective, an international organization of musicians which he has defined as "a particular group of people who have been committed, over the long term, to sharing their work and working together." Its members have shared an interest in John Cage and experimental music, and extended durations, indeterminacy, and silence have featured in many works they have made; but Pisaro is quick to point out that the members of the collective have a far from uniform aesthetic stance. A mist is a collection of points, while a grid is an organized collection of points. There is the unspoken tension in this work between regular and aperiodic, solid and vague, artificial and organic, order and sprawl. This interplay takes place from one section to the next, and also in the interactions between the parts: between the pianist (Phillip Bush), the percussionist (Greg Stuart), and the sine tones (by Michael Pisaro). This recording, like the piece itself, best reveals itself when it is "let loose in an environment," played on speakers rather than headphones, in order to continue to develop its shape.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. A Mist Is A Collection Of Points: Part I
      • 2. A Mist Is A Collection Of Points: Part II
      • 3. A Mist Is A Collection Of Points: Part III